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Univision to Launch Telenovela Web Site

Univision Communications is continuing its push online with the forthcoming rollout of a video web site for telenovela soap-operas - an unmet niche category for Hispanics, which are increasingly moving online for entertainment and news. "The world has shifted," says Joe Uva, Univision's president and chief executive. "Our audience is consuming more and more content on digital platforms and the go." (  [...]

GOOG Hopes Fast Flip Opens Profit to Publishers

This week Google Labs launched Fast Flip, a news/story search engine that provides results as screenshots of relevant articles. The idea behind Fast Flip is to enable users to visually "flip" through the information they most want to read. Headlines and popular topics are easy to spot. Fast Flip is also "smart," meaning it tailors itself to a user based on the selections s/he makes, making it a melange of "fast browsing, natural magazine-style   [...]

YouTube Video Reviews Join Google Product Search

Google is incorporating user-created YouTube reviews onto releated results pages in Google Product Search. "Videos include reviews from sources like USA Today, Wired, and Digital Trends, and they appear above the 'Similar Items' section of the page," the company explained. One example of how reviews have been incorporated is in   [...]

1-800-Flowers Pings Facebook for eCommerce

1-800-Flowers.com has enabled registered fans of its Facebook page to order floral arrangements right on Facebook. Customers can shop 1-800-Flowers.com and execute transactions without leaving Facebook. Using technology from online ad network Alvenda, the site also lets users gain access to an online product assortment by clicking on a "shop" button. They can browse items, place them in a cart, select a delivery date, and send. Planned upgrades include birthday calendars and group gifting  [...]

EyeWonder Helps Fox, GE Pontwificate with Users

To promote Season One of "Dollhouse," out on DVD and Blu-ray on July 28, Fox Home Entertainment launched a rich media ad that streams Twitter tweets and enables users to engage in conversation through the ad itself. The unit was developed with help from EyeWonder and Moxie. It showcases tweets from the feed of Eliza Dushku, star of "Dollhouse," and encourages users to jump in by logging in with existing Twitter accounts. Submissions are manually screened, after which tweets are permitted t  [...]

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Yahoo's New Homepage: A Social Aggregator Flanked by Contextual Ads

At 4:30 Eastern today, Yahoo will release a fully-redesigned homepage "[balances] "push" and "pull," adding simple but useful customization without diminishing the broad reach that the page offers," according to Search Engine Land. Search is more prominent on the page, which is also less cluttered. The left-hand column is now a customizable menu where users can stream RSS feeds. Widgets and   [...]

Meebo Unifies SocNets, Content Sites on Engagement Platform

IM service aggregation site Meebo has launched "multi-network IM access," which enables users to unify other social graphs on its platform, including major social networks and gaming sites. A sharing interface also enables them to swap content with greater ease. "Content sites interested in increasing the volume of content sharing, but without their own social graph, can use the multi-network IM feature to expand their reach and drive social interactions," the company said. Mother-driven   [...]

Twitter Hits Hollywood: Users Stalk Stars in Unscripted Show

Microblogging label Twitter is partnering with Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment to launch an unscripted TV show whose objective will be to "[put] ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format," reports Variety. Novelist and screenwriter Amy Ephron will executive produce the show alongside Kevin Foxe and Steve Latham, Reveille's Mark Koops and Howard T. Owens, Brillstein  [...]

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Hulu Sets Sights on Live Streaming; Dave Matthews Band Enlists

Hulu, the on-demand TV/film content site owned by News Corp. and NBC Universal and Disney, is prioritizing more live content, beginning with an aggressive promotional effort for the Dave Matthews Band. On June 1 the site shall stream a Dave Matthews Band concert, live from the Beacon Theatre in New York, between 9PM and 11:30PM EST. The even  [...]

Glam 'Tinkers' with 'Twitter for Journalists'

Lifestyle content network Glam Media has launched Tinker, a Twitter-style platform tailored to journalists, bloggers and PR professionals. Crucially, Glam also claims Tinker is "the first safe monetization model for brand advertisers" seeking exposure in the microblogging space. In tandem with Tinker, a Tinker Micro-Blogger Network was released. Tinker aggregates conversations on specific topics or events being discussed on Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook, among other brands. This way, us  [...]

Growing Interest in Widgets, Web-TV Features Drives US Adoption

A growing appetite for video on-demand (VoD) libraries and customizable widgets that are accessible through TV sets will pave the way for adoption of such enhanced video services in the US, according to a recent report from Parks Associates. The research finds 33% of US broadband users are interested in widgets, and almost 50% are interested in pre  [...]

Social Media Zeitgeist Takes Over Skittles.com

Late last week Skittles announced the relaunch of Skittles.com, which isn't so much a website as an app pointing visitors elsewhere online where Skittles material -- official or not -- is hosted. Visits to Skittles.com drive users to a search for "skittles" on Summize, a real-time search engine for Twitter.com. Floating above this material is a Skittles navigation bar: product links drive users to Wikipedia, and media links send them to either YouTube or  [...]

'Lost,' 'SNL' Top Online Streamed TV Programs

Lost, Saturday Night Live and Grey's Anatomy were December's three most popular entertainment TV programs streamed from tagged network websites and embedded network video players, according to (pdf) VideoCensus data from Nielsen Online (via MarketingCharts).   [...]

MLB.TV Supports HD Video, Elective Playbacks

This season, Major League Baseball is introducing a new gimmick to an old sport: enhanced streaming video, and granular replays on MLB.TV. Technology provided by Swarmcast enable the site to determine the speed of a viewer's internet connection, then adjust the quality of the video accordingly, reports The New York Times. The   [...]

Obama Inauguration Drives Droves to Web

Viewership at the top three US cable network news websites surged fourteen-fold from 12:00-1:00 p.m. EST on Inauguration Day, accounting for 30% of online event viewing, as millions of viewers tuned in to watch Barack Obama take the presidential oath and deliver his address, according to data from comScore Video Metrix (  [...]

Conde Nast Rethinks Digital Strategy

Conde Nast has consolidated its digital properties under a single head, MediaBuyerPlanner reports. Sarah Chubb, former president of CondeNet -- the unit that oversaw destination sites like Epicurious.com and Style.com -- will lead the department and report to president/CEO Chuck Townsend. The move marks a shift in the company's strategy of keeping destination sites separate from the sites of it  [...]

TV.com Restructured as Hulu Competitor

CBS is expanding the content on TV.com in the hopes of making the site a video destination, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. CBS announced today that it has non-exclusive distribution deals with PBS, Sony, MGM and Endemol that will help it to expand its library of online videos. In the last month, TV.com was redesigned to better promote the thousands of TV episodes it offers. CBS is a  [...]

American Pie's 'Stifler' Co-Anchors Heavy.com Sports Show

Seann William Scott -- better known as Steve Stifler of the raunchy '90s comedy American Pie -- joins male entertainment site Heavy.com as co-host of The Burly Sports Show, a weekly round-up of all things sporting. "This goes beyond a sponsorship," boasted CEO Simon Assaad of Heavy.com (via MediaPost  [...]

Mint.com Launches Finance App for iPhone

Last Friday online finance manager Mint.com launched an iPhone application, enabling users to track credit and debit card spend from their handsets. The service is now the top finance offering in the App Store, the company reports. Like its online site, Mint's iPhone app lets users view balances, monitor budgets and check their net worth in real-time. In the event   [...]

Social Streaming, Site Sharing Unify Yahoo Products

To support its ongoing Open Strategy, Yahoo announced a handful of new offerings and enhancements: Smarter Yahoo! Mail. Thought to be the broadest implementation of its Open Strategy initiative, enhanced Y! Mail "learns" which messages, data and activities users most care about and pushe  [...]